FAQ - Hemolysis
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Which of the following symptoms is associated with consuming a megadose of vitamin C?


night blindness
scurvy
nausea and diarrhea
erythrocyte hemolysis
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I would say nausea and diarrhea. Could this not be a trick question, because as someone else said, your body passes what Vitamin C it doesn't use?  (+ info)

Can you solve these medical mysteries?


1. The patient is a seven-year old boy with leg pain, swollen gums and red dots all over his skin. His height and weight had slipped, and he had a mild fever. HIs appetite was poor and his diet consisted of cookies, bread, yogurt and milk.
What disease is this boy suffering from?

2.The patient is a 48-year old woman suffering fatigue and a potassium level of 8.2 mmol/L. After treatment, three causes were thought of: renal failure, hemolysis, or supplements. They were all wrong. The cause was identified when the patient said ______.
What type of juice if drunk in liters would cause a potassium level of 8.2 mmol/L?

3. A 22-year old, with a history of drug abuse, collapses. After being brought to the hospital he is given cpr, shocked five times, given ten different types of drugs and hooked on a respirator, he is declared dead. Five min. later, a nurse comes into his room and finds him alive with a blood pressure of 90/60.
What is this penomenon called?
4. Describe a poison that would cause fever, abdominal pain, diarrhea, weakness, and a peripheral sensory neuropathy. Also other symptoms would be anemia, anisopoikilocytosis, basophjilic stippling, irregular pyknotic nuclei, and Howell-Jolly bodies, Mee's lines on fingernails and toenails, and hyperkeratosis.


Answer all four questions correctly and you automatically get 10 points. Remember spelling counts!
The answers are:
1. scurvy
2. orange juice (citrus)
3. Lazarus Phenomenon
4. Arsenic poisoning

Any more answers will be not count. Only one answer was the closest. Thank you all for your time.
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1. scurvy

2. she had Addison's disease? Citrus (orange/grapefruit) juices.

3. spurious asystole

4. heavy metal poisoning - probably lead  (+ info)

why such a fast rise in liver test?


I have hep C a liver test on 4/3/09 AST 42 Alt 54, they were about the same six months before that.
But last week Ast 152 and Alt 213 almost 5 times up in only six months, why so fast? test had slight hemolysis stamped on it, please answer
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Slight hemolysis can cause your enzymes to increase. That is a pretty good jump, but you would not be the first to do that. What you can to, is call the lab manager and ask if you could have the labs effected by hemolysis to be repeated. This should lower them to accurate results. Don't expect a drastic change, but it should improve them.
The results should be taken to your dr. anything could be happening, you could not be taking you meds correctly, or need different meds, or you could have a virus aggravating you liver to cause this, over the counter medication can aggravate you enzymes, or pretty much anything.  (+ info)

Worst case scenario with Vistaril given IV?


Someone gave it IV, not thinking. Pt evidentally fine and discharged. Know of possible hemolysis with IV administration, but when would the onset be. Anything else to worry about?
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IV Vistaril is fine, though not the preferred route. Im a nurse and actually discussed this with a pharmacist b/c this was also my concern. The main issue with IV Vistaril is not giving it intraarterial. Then it could cause gangrene with subsequent limb loss. Literature backed it up.  (+ info)

Using a kidney machine to remove waste products from the blood is known as ________.?


osmosis
osmolysis
autolysis
hemolysis
hemodialysis
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If one has diabetes mellitus, glucose can NOT enter cells right?


If one has diabetes melliyus, glucose can NOT enter cells right? Instead it accumulates in the blood plasma.. which of these statements WOULD BE TRUE?

1. The concentration of the plasma would decrease

2. The osmotic presure will stay the same.

3. Water would move out of the tissues into plamsa...

4 Tissue cells would swell....

In my opinion.... 1 would be the true answer because the concentration of the glucose wouldnt be able to absorb into the cells due to such a high concentration right???Energy of cells would come to a stop.
BUT,for number 3... ( yes i skipped 2) for 3,during high levels of glucose isnt energy immobilized... Glucose is a larger molecule wouldnt it need facilitated diffusion to be transported across a cells membrane?
and my answer for #4 would be.. Im thinking this would cause a cell to burst (hemolysis) and cause severe damage to many organs and organ systems..this is why i think this would be true as well I wonder if there is more than one answer
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Number 3 is right!
The plasma concentration would increase with the glycated hemaglobin circulating in it.
Water would move into the blood (out of the cells) to try to dilute it. This is what causes the dehydration of diabetes. Tissue cells shrink.  (+ info)

Beta-Interferon and Drug-Induced Hemolytic Anemia


Do any of the medical people maybe know if there is a link between the two?

I have a theory that the immunomodulatory action of the interferon could result in altered hemoglobin levels; even premature hemolysis of erythrocytes.
Thank you both for your replies. I appreciate that you would take the time to help me out.
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Yes, that's a good theory. But it has been shown in a recent French study that forty per-cent of people suffering MS have malabsorption problem's where bee-twelve is concerned, including a lack of intestinal bacteria, required for expediting the absorption process.

May I ask why you are addressing a possible link between anemia and interferon? If the subject in question that you're building the hypothesis for is suffering MS, then they may already be presenting with anemia caused by malabsorption. Thus, addressing another causative agent for the anemia may not only be a confounding of variables- it may well be a moot point.

The predisposition toward malabsorption disorder in MS patients is clearly seen. It may help you untangle variables. Well, it will when I find the right link. I'll post an edit.

Sorry about spelling out the numbers. Breather message won't let me post.

Try this site: http://www.nhfw.info/multiple-sclerosis....  (+ info)

lab results what do they mean?


My daughter was 6yrs old and has had too many lab work ups. Military dr.'s don't tell you anything. They just pass you on to the next duty station. Her lymph node in her throat has been swollen off and on - larger than a grape, since she was a baby. They don't look at her past lab results or medical history and work-ups. Can someone tell me what these labs mean?
IGG 1163
IGA 151
IGM 56
Hemolysis Index 2
Icteric index 0
Lipemia index 8
WBC SMRKR 5.7
%Lymphs 52.1 H
Lymph # 3
CD45 & CD14 0.6
CD3/T3 & CD8/T8 30.1
CD3 73.9
CD8/T8 Suprss 32.5
CD3 & CD4 33.7
CD4/T4 helper 34.3
CD3- & CD19 14.9
CD3- & CD56 8.2
CD56/NKH-1 LGL 9.9
ABC CD3/CD8 903.0 H
T SUM 50.4
LYMPH SUM 99.3
CD4/(CD8 & CD3) 1.12
ABS CD4 10.11
LYMPH ATYP/100 WBC 1 H
CMV IGG NEG
CMV IGM NEG
ANA SCREEN POSITIVE H
ANA TITER 1:80+ H
ANA PATTERN SPECKLED H
DNA DS AB <1:10 NEG
DNASE B AB <1:60 NEG
ASO 125
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I have been there and didn't know their "coded jargon". I found out quickly!

Each hospital has their own codes.

Just ask them to tell you in plain English what they mean.

If they don"t give you answers you do have a recourse with your State's hospital or Doctors oversight agency.  (+ info)

labs - complement level - results meaning?


What does this mean for a child?
HEMOLYSIS INDEX - 2, ICTERIC INDEX - 0, LIPEMIA INDEX - 8, %LYMPHS 52.1 - High, LYMPH# 3, CD45 & CD14 - 0.6, CD3/T3 & CD8/T8 - 30.1, CD3 - 73.9, CD8/T8 SUPPRESS -32.5, CD3 & CD4 - 33.7, CD4/T4 HELPER - 34.3, CD3- & CD19 - 14.9, CD3- & CD56 - 8.2, CD56/NKH-1 LGL - 9.9, ABS CD3/CD8 - 903.0 High, T SUM - 50.4, LYMPH SUM -99.3, CD4/(CD8 & CD3) - 1.12, LYM ATYP/100 WBC - 1 High, MICROCYTES 2+, SCHISTOCYTES 1+, OVALCYTES 1+
I live on a military base not in the US, doctors here don't know anything, We don't have a specialist or a pediatric doctor.

The dr, here could only tell me her ANA is elevated at 1:640 which really means nothing, and her swollen lymph nodes for the past 11yrs means nothing, its nothing to worry about, and they won't do any testing. So if you don't know the answer to my question don't answer it. Please don't say ask your doctor, waste your time on someone else's question.

Thank you.............
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I am a nurse but I will admit, I don't work with kids. I am not too familiar with what their normal levels are supposed to be. I can tell you from looking at what they tested her for that they are looking for an infection.

Lymphs and t-cell counts (cd) are all parts of white blood cells, they are elevated when there is an infection present. The body, when it detects an infection, produces more white blood cells to fight off the infection.

Other than what I have told you above, I really don't know anything else. I hope she's better.  (+ info)

Can I take Stemulite with a medical condition?


Hi I am a GGPD full-defect patient and was wondering if I can take the natural supplement Stemulite (https://secure.truehealthyproducts.com/stemulite.com/index.php?affiliate=783)

G6PD deficiency is the lack of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (an enzyme present in red blood cells) in the blood, which can cause a type of anemia known as hemolytic anemia. Red blood cells carry oxygen in the body and G6PD protects these cells from natural oxygen chemicals that may build up when you have a fever or take certain medications. If there are too many of these chemicals, they can destroy the red blood cells, causing hemolytic anemia. G6PD deficiency is inherited - people are born with the deficiency.

Glucose-6-Phosphate Dehydrogenase (G6PD) Deficiency
G6PD deficiency reduces energy available to maintain the integrity of the red cell membrane, which shortens RBC survival.
Hemolysis occurs commonly after fever, acute viral and bacterial infections, and diabetic acidosis. Less commonly, hemolysis occurs after exposure to drugs or to other substances that produce peroxide and cause oxidation of Hb and RBC membranes. These drugs and substances include primaquine, salicylates, sulfonamides, nitrofurans, phenacetin, naphthalene, some vitamin K derivatives, dapsone ,phenazopyridine, nalidixic acid, methylene blue ,and, in some whites, fava beans. Whether continued use of the offending drug leads to a compensated hemolytic state or lethal hemolysis depends on the degree of G6PD deficiency and the oxidant potential of the drug.
It is G6PD, thanks!
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